Heat the joint with your soldering iron and place the tip of the solder sucker over the hot solder. The sparkfun hotair rework station 303d is one such solution. Tools and techniques for hot air soldering surfacemount. Illustrations in this manual are only example images and may differ from the actual item. Digital control and display of hot air temperature, soldering iron temperature.
Free ebook pdf learn to solder guide 17 pages what is soldering. Whether youre building a robot or working with arduino, knowing how to solder will come in handy. Soldering unit and a sunkko hot air rework station. Press the release button to suck up the liquid solder. Noclean or low solids fluxes will burn off before a joint can be made with higher temperatures, so low temperatures below 700 may be essential for these fluxes. If in doubt the blue soldering iron tips have a 7 stamped on the end of the tip indicating an operating temperature of 700f. If youre soldering larger components, especially ones with heat sinks like voltage regulators, or doing a lot of soldering, youll probably want a 25 or 30 watt iron. I just got me a hot air reworking station which im going to use to solder exposed pad devices and qfn devices. In order to empty the solder sucker, press down on the plunger. Smd soldering surface mount soldering guide how to.
Plumbing, maybe soldering irons are best used along with a heatresistant benchtype holder, so that the. If youre just soldering small resistors and ics, 15 watts will probably suffice, but you may have to wait a bit in between joints for the tip to recover. The temperature should be adjusted to assure the solder melts without damaging the component or the circuit board, and the volume of air flow. If you are using a temperature controlled iron, set it to 700f370c for 6040 or 750f400c for leadfree solder. Since i dont have all the parts for my current project yet, i decided to test it out by removing some parts off an old useless graphics card and it seemes to work pretty well. Please keep the hot air temperature between 100500c, and the soldering tip temperature at 200480c, above this may cause burning or fire accidents, please. Hot air solder levelling in the leadfree era circuit insight. Hot air stations or heat guns are very useful tools and are essential for any electronics workbench. When working with or building printed circuit boards, there is a lot of room for errors to be made. A soldering tutorial for modellers assembling brass. With the temperature set at 343c, and the air flow set at 15 litersmin, turn on the. Project tools and techniques for hot air soldering surfacemount components april 06, 2017 by charles r. Other times, the solder or components on the pcb can react in ways that are not desirable during reflow. Please keep manual in accessible place for future reference.
In this tutorial we explore soldering irons, soldering stations, types of solder, desoldering. It will continue to blow air until the air temperature is below 100 c. Although most lines require manual loading and unloading of the panel fully. Plug an andor turn on your soldering iron to warm up. In this tutorial, we outline the basics of soldering irons, soldering stations, types of solder, desoldering and safety tips. It is important to read the manual before using the equipment. The solder wets the exposed metallic areas of the board those not protected with. Using a solder with silver content helps, but is not necessary.
As you can see, it includes not only a hotair soldering station but also a hand soldering station, as well. Smd desoldering is generally done using a hot air blower while soldering can be done using a soldering iron and solder wire or using solder paste or solder balls and smd hot air blower rework station. Learn how to insert the correct tip in the soldering iron, tin it when new, select correct. Reflow soldering of resistors, capacitors, diodes, controller, and other surface mounted components using a hot air gun. A solder gun is a pistolshaped iron, typically running at 100w or more, and is completely unsuitable for soldering modern electronic components. Soldering surfacemount components with a hotair soldering station. Smd soldering and desoldering is little different from thruhole soldering and desoldering process. Plumbing, maybe soldering irons are best used along with a heatresistant benchtype holder, so that the hot iron can be safely parked in between use.
The hot air nozzle has an adjustable motion range of up to 50mm per axis. Blue pencil cases contain the correct larger sponge and tips for the blue soldering irons. Although the advantages of hot air solder leveling hasl in providing the most. While the iron is heating dampen the sponge with a little bit of water. Hampton the best way to solder surface mount devices smds onto printed circuit boards pcbs is with a reflow oven, but when thats not possible, a hot air station can be successfully used. This is a prototype pcb of a custom designed mechanical keyboard, gh60. It will continue to blow air until the air temperature is below 100c.
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